Abu Abdullah al-Magribi

Dr. Saad Qasim ibn Massoud, also known as Abu Abdullah al-Magribi (18 June 1931-16 September 2005) was a Moroccan imam who became the leader of the Moroccan Islamic Jihad terrorist group in 1972, founding the organization to promote international jihadism.

Biography
Saad Qasim ibn Massud was born in Rabat, Morocco, to a Muslim family, and became a doctor in Islamic studies at the University of Casablanca. He became an imam shortly after graduating from college, and in 1967 he joined the Palestine Liberation Organization in their war against Israel. Massoud took on the nom de guerre of Abu Abdullah al-Magribi ("Father of Abdullah the Moroccan") and gained experience, and in 1972 he founded the Moroccan Islamic Jihad organization. Recruiting fighters at his sermons, he attacked Christians and Sephardic Jews in the city of Rabat, before expanding his group into an international terrorist organization.

In 1988, he gained attention internationally after the Brighton Brotherly Church bombing, and was wanted by the United States, United Kingdom, Morocco, and France. al-Magribi eventually disbanded the group due to a lack of attention in 1995, and he returned to Morocco to resume meditational practices. He died in 2005 of liver cancer.